Atmospheric
The Burning Story of Climate Change
Age 12+
General Science, Science & Technology: General Interest Nature, The Natural World Educational: Sciences
This burning story of climate change is a new book in the award-winning non-fiction series for teens, The Drum. Written by award winner Carole Wilkinson, author of the bestselling book The Drum: Black Snake and the international smash hit Dragonkeeper series.
Talking about the weather used to be small talk, now it's the hottest topic on Earth. We can’t survive without Earth’s atmosphere, yet most of the time we ignore it. We treat our atmosphere as a rubbish dump for our greenhouse gas emissions. Slowly but surely, what we are doing is changing Earth’s climate. Atmospheric cuts through the many voices raised around climate change to tell the story of our atmosphere, what is putting our climate at risk and what we can do about it. This could be the most important book you read in your life.
Creators
Carole Wilkinson is an internationally award-winning and bestselling author. Carole writes both fiction and non-fiction and her stories are loved by young people all over the world. Carole embarked on her writing career at the age of 40 and she has been making up for lost time ever since. Carole is interested in the history of everything. She is also a member of a climate action group, campaigning for sustainable living and a safe climate. These two passions have been brought together in Atmospheric: The Burning Story of Climate Change.
Reviews
Atmospheric is an insightful piece of multimodal non-fiction which really makes you think twice about the environment around us and how we care for it. This is a book which is both easy to read and yet deeply informative…
Genie in a Book
This is the clearest and easiest to understand book that I have read about climate change—either for adults or children. Highly recommended for everybody, including climate change skeptics!
103.1 FM Grafton
This is both an excellent educative tool, and inspirational, and will leave readers better informed and keen to make a difference.
Aussie Reviews
Atmospheric is going to be an extremely important book in the coming years; it is an extraordinary collection of manageable and easy-to-understand facts about how the modern world is changing the natural world we live in.
The Book Kat
